soundcard SIS 7018 PCI problem in Mandrake 8.0

so. i have the above mentioned soundcard, mandrake detects ad installs it (with alsa), i can hear my cd-audio playing but not my mp3 files (even if xmms keeps playing them). it's an onboard card, bios says that it is an ac97 sound card, while alsa say it's an trident card. what can i do to hear mp3's?

Try to unmute all your sound channels with amixer. you can type something like this :

amixer set PCM 100 unmute

You have to do it for all the group that you have. You can see all the group that you have when you type amixer without arguments.

When you are satisfied with your settings, you can save them with "alsactl store". You have to restore your settings each time you boot your system and to do that you can add "alsactl restore" in one of your init script e.g. rc.local.

1. Accept a Comment As Answer (use the button next to the Expert's name).
2. Close the question if the information was not useful to you. You must tell the participants why you wish to do this, and allow for Expert response.
3. Ask Community Support to help split points between participating experts, or just comment here with details and we'll respond with the process.
4. Delete the question. Again, please comment to advise the other participants why you wish to do this.

Please click you Member Profile to view your question history and keep them all current with updates as the collaboration effort continues, to track all your open and locked questions at this site. If you are an EE Pro user, use the Power Search option to find them.

You cannot delete a question once comments have been entered. For that you need our help. But since you also provided the solution you yourself found, I will move this to the PAQ database to close it, since it "may" help someone else in the future.

Your 100 points have been refunded to you. Please update and finalize your other questions.

Moondancer - EE Moderator

0

Featured Post

Poor audio quality is one of the top reasons people don’t use video conferencing. Get the crispest, clearest audio powered by Dolby Voice in every meeting. Highfive and Dolby Voice deliver the best video conferencing and audio experience for every meeting and every room.

I am a long time windows user and for me it is normal to have spaces in directory and file names. Changing to Linux I found myself frustrated when I moved my windows data over to my new Linux computer.
The problem occurs when at the command line.…

Linux users are sometimes dumbfounded by the severe lack of documentation on a topic. Sometimes, the documentation is copious, but other times, you end up with some obscure "it varies depending on your distribution" over and over when searching for …

Learn how to navigate the file tree with the shell.
Use pwd to print the current working directory: Use ls to list a directory's contents: Use cd to change to a new directory: Use wildcards instead of typing out long directory names: Use ../ to move…